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This is how NASA delivers its huge packages

NASA has just delivered theOrion spacecraft’s heat shield to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Look at it getting loaded into their Super Guppy, a special cargo plane used by the agency to carry oversized parts. It just looks like a giant FedEx package. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us in…

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Is This a Storm or the Open Gates of Hell?

Check out this unbelievable storm photograph by Anne Goforth—her entry for the 2013 National Geographic Photo Contest.And check Sploid a selection of our top three favorite photos in each of the three categories: people, places and nature. Taken on May 26th, 2013, this was a dissipating low precipitation thunderstorm near Broken Bow, NE that produced…

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The best world photos of 2013

If there’s an authority on which are the best photographs of people, nature and places every year that is, without a doubt, theNational Geographic Photo Contest, now in its 2013 edition. I don’t even care about the winners because the selected entries are all equally incredible. I’ve picked my favorite nine. “The fennec, or desert…

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How a century of dog breeding ruined these beautiful animals

Watching how one hundred years of dog breeding “improvement” actually ruined perfectly beautiful, athletic, and useful dogs, turning them into a caricature of themselves full of health problems, is really sad. Just look at the deformation endured by the bull terrier above these lines. Science of Dogs collected these old photos from Breeds of All…

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New video reveals fascinating details in alienesque hexagon on Saturn

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured the first high definition video of the mysterious Saturn hexagon. It shows some fascinating details and features never observed before. But now, more than even, it looks like some kind of living alien organism looked through a microscope—except it’s not, because this monster is wider than two Earths. According to…

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The best gifts for true dog lovers

First of all: if you don’t have a dog, please think hard before getting one these holidays. It’s a huge responsibility. They are sentient, sensitive beings who will love you all their life, not toys. But if you’re a true dog lover, then dive in with us and share your favorite gifts with your fellow…

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Wouldn’t you like to be suntanning inside this cave right now?

It’s cold and miserable out there. And the office is not much better. I would rather be in a cave. This cave, in the Praia de Benagil, in the Algarve, Portugal. What an incredible place. Although, truth be told, it’d be cold in the Algarve too. Not super cold, but too cold to tan right…

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None of these awesome photos has been digitally modified

Each of the photos in this collection took weeks—some even months—of preparation. They were prepared and shot by a JeeYoung Lee, a Korean artist who just has a camera, a ridiculously tiny 11.8 x 13.4 x 7.8-foot studio and lots of patience and talent to build her dreamscapes. From the gallery’s site (in French): For…

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This is the now the largest ship in the world

Behold the Prelude! She’s now floating in the sea after leaving its South Korean dry dock for the first time. The ship is larger than the Empire State Building and it will be used for Shell’s liquified natural gas operations in Western Australia.

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Penguin takes selfie, looks like a giant monster from hell

Someone from the adventure travel agency G-Adventures left a GoPro camera on the ground, in front of some penguins.Then this happened. Penguins are such adorable creatures when they are not eating your head. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us in Facebook.

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Shocking before and after photos show the effects of climate change

This is the Muir Glacier in Alaska, shot in August, 1941 and August, 2004. It’s only one example in NASA’s new Images of Change app. Seeing the unbelievable effect of just a few decades of climate change in the following before and after photos is a sad and sobering experience. Northwestern Glacier, Alaska, August 1940—August…

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Some horrible person left a dead deer in a New York City trashcan

Some days I lose all faith in humanity: DNAinfo reports on the finding of a taxidermic deer in a trashcan in Washington Heights, a New York City neighborhood in northern Manhattan, on the corner 159th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. The deer was stuffed upright into the garbage, with its front legs curled into a resting…

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This beautiful orchid is a deadly predator

Orchids are beautiful flowers—until you see one of them opening a pair of deadly arms and jaws to kill a butterfly who was just looking for some pollen to eat. That’s what the orchid mantis does, the “first known predator to lure prey by mimicking flowers.” Now, this process has been documented for the first…

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Amazon Prime rockets are only sightly more stupid than Amazon drones

Amazon Prime Air’s drones are plagued with practical problems that would make them inviable in urban environments for the foreseeable future. What about Amazon Rockets? They’re only a bit more ludicrous. But seriously now, what Jeff Bezos should really do is build a delivery network made of supersonic pneumatic tubes connected to every home in…

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Feel the terror of being chased by a shark swimming underwater

There’s something about this video that fills me with terror more than any other shark clip I’ve ever seen. It’s not its monstrous looks, but the vision of it coming at you out of nowhere, accelerating until it engulfs your head with its jaws. The complete video is even worse. It’s terrifying to see this…

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The easiest way to understand how gravity and space-time warping works

This has been around for some time, but this simple and entertaining space-time warping demonstration by Dan Burns is a must watch, even if you’re already familiar with these concepts. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us in Facebook.

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NASA discovers two black holes fighting each other in a “death spiral”

In an “incredible rare sighting” by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, NASA astronomers may have discovered two black holes entangled in a “death spiral.” According to Peter Eisenhardt at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena: At first we thought this galaxy’s unusual properties seen by WISE might mean it was forming new stars at a…

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New study: Striking brain differences explain some gender stereotypes

A new research paper published today in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences demonstrates that men and women’s brains connectivity is very different which, according to the authors, gives a “potential neural basis as to why men excel at certain tasks and women at others,” matching some commonly-held stereotypes. The study—one the largest of…

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The Swedes will have street legal self-driving cars in 2017

Volvo has been first with many of the car safety inventions now in everyone’s cars, so it’s no surprise that they’re spearheading an effort to have street legal self-driving cars in Sweden by 2017. Hopefully it will all work perfectly and soon we will all be able to enjoy them.

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The new World Trade Center screams like a banshee in strong winds

The new World Trade Center is bland and boring by day but, when the night comes, if there’s a strong wind, it will scream like a demon, waking people up and sending a chill down everyone’s spine. I hope the people living around it stock up on ear plugs. Listen.

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This is how NASA delivers its huge packages

Is This a Storm or the Open Gates of Hell?

The best world photos of 2013

How a century of dog breeding ruined these beautiful animals

New video reveals fascinating details in alienesque hexagon on Saturn

The best gifts for true dog lovers

Wouldn’t you like to be suntanning inside this cave right now?

None of these awesome photos has been digitally modified

This is the now the largest ship in the world

Penguin takes selfie, looks like a giant monster from hell

Shocking before and after photos show the effects of climate change

Some horrible person left a dead deer in a New York City trashcan

This beautiful orchid is a deadly predator

Amazon Prime rockets are only sightly more stupid than Amazon drones

Feel the terror of being chased by a shark swimming underwater

The easiest way to understand how gravity and space-time warping works

NASA discovers two black holes fighting each other in a “death spiral”

New study: Striking brain differences explain some gender stereotypes

The Swedes will have street legal self-driving cars in 2017

The new World Trade Center screams like a banshee in strong winds

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